9 Quotes by Robin Munro

What they need is some enforcement. More high-level directives from Beijing aren't going to do it.

Major disasters involving heavy loss of life have just shot up. It's in direct correlation to profits and production. They're ignoring safety in the interest of bringing the coal up to the surface.

No one is out there keeping officials' feet to the fire to see that the law is applied. The whole government policy is so heavily slanted toward the investors these days that they've totally lost sight of social justice.

Nobody works in the mine unless they have virtually no other option.

One of the main problems right now is that miners' lives are simply too cheap. The mines don't have to make safety a priority.

We know that many workers are walking around being owed a year or two years' wages. It is not uncommon at all.

They're making miners work excessively long shifts. They have too many miners underground.

Then the mine operators might take it seriously.

If you publicize a problem but do nothing about it, what you produce is compassion fatigue. You get a lot of reports about these disasters, but nothing ever changes. Just publicity by itself is not nearly enough.